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Major new features of the 3.8 series, compared to 3.7 PEP 572, Assignment expressions PEP 570, Positional-only arguments PEP 587, Python Initialization Configuration (improved embedding) PEP 590, Vectorcall: a fast calling protocol for CPython PEP 578, Runtime audit hooks PEP 574, Pickle protocol 5 with out-of-band data Typing-related: PEP 591 (Final qualifier), PEP 586 (Literal types), and PEP 589 (TypedDict) Parallel filesystem cache for compiled bytecode Debug builds share ABI as release builds f-strings support a handy = specifier for debugging continue is now legal in finally: blocks on Windows, the default asyncio event loop is now ProactorEventLoop on macOS, the spawn start method is now used by default in multiprocessing multiprocessing can now use shared memory segments to avoid pickling costs between processes typed_ast is merged back to CPython LOAD_GLOBAL is now 40% faster pickle now uses Protocol 4 by default, improving performance
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Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented
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programming language that combines remarkable power with
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very clear syntax. For an introduction to programming in
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Python you are referred to the Python Tutorial. The
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Python Library Reference documents built-in and standard
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types, constants, functions and modules. Finally, the
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Python Reference Manual describes the syntax and semantics
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of the core language in (perhaps too) much detail.
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Python's basic power can be extended with your own modules
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written in C or C++. On most systems such modules may be
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dynamically loaded. Python is also adaptable as an exten-
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sion language for existing applications. See the internal
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documentation for hints.
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This package provides Python version 3.8.x.
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